Blue Mountain Center

A coalition of over 200 U.S. grassroots, women's, solidarity, faith-based, policy, social- and economic-justice, youth, labor and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

A national network of labor, family-farm, religious, women's, environmental, development and research organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and development.

A national organization that promotes community gardening. Site offers many resources and links.

An alliance of grassroots activists to lobby the federal government on federal forests policies.

The Washington advocacy arm of the ALA tackles a wide array of copyright, Internet, open access and other issues relating to creativity and knowledge.

Useful web links to associations and materials on barter as an alternative to market transactions.

Formerly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Bioversity International is the world's largest international research organization dedicated solely to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity.

The British site for the annual day dedicated to not consuming things: November 27, 2007.

Boston-based venue for theater, dance, film, video, music and visual arts.

The Campaign is a Washington, D.C. policy advocacy group that fights to protect public lands from private exploitation. It publishes a weekly newsletter, Land Line.

The Canadian government's site for promoting urban gardens, City Farmer also publishes Urban Agriculture Notes.

An innovative, activist-oriented, all-volunteer grassroots organization that helps people "reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places." Based in Portland, Oregon.

A global warming portal with access to many other useful biocentric climate science, policy & advocacy websites.

A global map that illustrates the local consequences of global warming, with special notations of "fingerprints" and "harbingers" of climate change.

An independent, nonpartisan policy center advocating U.S. greenhouse gas emission reductions.

A nonprofit in western Massachusetts devoted to promoting small farmers and direct relationships with consumers.

The Creative Commons has developed web-friendly legal licenses to help people dedicate their creative works to the public domain — or retain their copyrights while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions. The goal is to enable greater access and sharing of creative works.

An unsurpassed gateway to the international literature on the commons, this site contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, a full-text Digital Library, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

This online directory seeks to be a one-stop portal for easier access and use of open access scientific and scholarly journals. More than 1,200 journals are currently available via the site.

A western Massachussetts collective that seeks to promote cooperative exchange of goods and services among people in the Pioneer Valley.